Chapter 3 Choices
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault."
"Who knows if you've played any tricks? It's better to grasp what is in front of you." "Ah Jue" was unmoved, which was completely contrary to my expectations.
Tsk, what a mistake, this old fox, you let me be the scourge first, so don't blame me for being rude! I touched the plum blossom dart in my pocket and observed the terrain around "Ah Jue" to see if there was anything I could use.
He was standing under the crumbling tube, and as long as I had enough of it, the bare broken wires could be broken with a little external force, and it was a gamble.
I moved a little closer to him, spotted the wire, pulled out the plum dart and threw it hard, throwing an arc straight at the wire. Two centimeters, one centimeter, and it's about to be touched!
Unfortunately, I still overestimated my ability, and the plum dart was thrown in front of the wire, only to rub the edge and deviate from the track, and did not pose any threat to the electric light at all.
This mistake also made "Ah Jue" realize the danger, and dragged the drill bit to a place where there was no light overhead.
"So you still want to me behind your back, thanks to your mistake, otherwise I would have let you play" Without any hesitation, he looked like a hungry wolf, as if he was going to eat him, and quickly slashed the knife, leaving a bloody mark on the neck of the drill. However, he also miscalculated, and the drill bit has been waiting for the opportunity to fight back, although the knife cut his neck, the wound is not too deep, the most important thing is that the knife temporarily left the neck, and took the opportunity to bite the hand of "Ah Jue".
"It hurts! You little, look at me..." "Ah Jue" was enraged, desperate and crazy to pounce on the drill, the drill bit has also learned self-defense skills, and he and "Ah Jue" scuffled together after untying his hands, looking like they were up and down.
In the confusion, the knife broke away from the hand of "Ah Jue", flew to the side, the drill was fast, jumped up and grabbed the knife first, and he held the knife in the dominant position, ready to counterattack "Ah Jue", I saw that "Ah Jue" wanted to use the ability, I quickly strangled his neck with my arm and dragged him back.
"Poke him!" With his eyes closed, the drill focused the strength of his entire arm on a single point and poked it down hard.
I only heard a scream, and when I came back to my senses, the knife had already poked into the chest of "Ah Jue", and the white shirt was stained with a large area of bright red.
"Cheng, succeeded?" The drill, who had never done such a thing, collapsed on the ground and looked at the motionless "Ah Jue" in a daze. I don't understand, why the "black shadow clone" hasn't changed back to its own appearance, it's still Ah Jue's appearance, and it can still be damaged by physical attacks, and the virtual black shadow can completely avoid damage. Unless the "Black Shadow Clone" has a partially independent consciousness, but must also fully follow the instructions of the ontology in action, "Gui" does not let him change back to his own appearance, he can only always appear as Ah Jue.
Sure enough, the "thing" wrapped in black shadows that he saw after leaving the gate of the house was the real Ah Jue, and he was caught by the "black shadow clone" who was squatting outside the door since he went out, and then the "Ah Jue" that I and the drill saw was knocked away by icicles, including the "Ah Jue" who was hijacked by the "Gui" behind and froze into ice cubes are all "black shadow clones" after the package, he designed our escape route, and forced us to run to a dead end and saw the "Ah Jue" prepared in advance, which is why after seeing "Ah Jue" The reason why the "Black Shadow Clone" disappeared for no reason.
"This shoddy toy is just tickling for me"
"Ah Jue", who fell to the ground, suddenly opened his eyes, and his palm condensed into a black ball, and a raging fire instantly erupted around a pile of broken test benches in the direction of the black ball, and various chemical test liquids were mixed in it to make a "crackling" sound, and there was a danger of explosion at any time.
"Xiaobai, you run, get Ah Jue out, leave me alone!" Seeing that "Ah Jue" was about to attack again, the drill scuffled with him again, interfering with the preparation of the ability, and he failed to succeed.
"But..." I looked at the fierce fire burning in front of me, listened to the sound of two people scuffling together from behind, and I really wanted to collapse in place, thinking about nothing, doing nothing, closing my eyes, it was just a nightmare.
It's "one of the two" again, both sides are fate, what should I do, how should I choose? A faint voice came from the abyss, and he opened his hand to pull me down.
"It's good to run away by yourself, why bother others? Running away in crisis conditions is human instinct, instinct! They won't blame you, no one will blame you"
"If that's the case, I can't forgive myself for being like this, I can't do it!" I threw my fist into the hand that was reaching out to me, and the glassy dream collapsed and exploded.
The mind returned to calm again, there must be a way. The flames seemed to be burning badly, but they were still burning around the point of origin, and they hadn't spread to the edge for the time being, so I should be able to get past them by walking close to the wall.
The continuous burning flames produced billowing smoke, and I covered my mouth and nose with my clothes, bent over as far as I could from the smoke floating above, and I had to stay conscious until I could save Ajue. I clinged to the wall with a normal temperature, and tentatively stepped over the obstacle under my feet, because I couldn't cover my mouth and nose because I had to stick to the wall, and after a while my head was dizzy, and I couldn't stand a little unsteadily.
Okay, I've seen Ah Jue, take a few more steps! I comforted myself, suppressed the panic in my heart, bent down and approached Ah Jue step by step, the unconscious Ah Jue was even more disadvantageous than me, first carry him outside and then go to save the drill.
It was safe outside, and after carrying Ah Jue out, I immediately returned to the laboratory to save the drill bit, the smoke was too heavy to see what was behind it, and the flames completely spread over, splitting the laboratory in half. The front door doesn't work, so go in through the back door!
God played an inappropriate joke on me, the back door was locked from the inside when "Ah Jue" came in, and no matter how I smashed the door outside, I couldn't open it. Well, the "black shadow clone" pushed himself to a dead end, and even pulled a friend of mine as a backstop.
Despair, the despair that spreads from the bottom of my heart to my whole body, is like a raging fire, swallowing my extremely fragile heart little by little.
The world is silent, or maybe I'm wearing headphones and blocking out all the sounds from the outside world.
I want to scream madly, roar madly, even if it doesn't matter if my voice is broken, why should I suffer everything for no reason? Why won't you let me go? I got an incurable disease, and I saw my friends go again and again without being able to save them.
I'm a sinner, a sinner through and through, and it's okay if I don't exist in this world.
Ah Jue was still unconscious, I tried all means, fanning him, beating him, shaking him, my arms were sore, and he was still motionless like an elm pimple.
"Wake me up, wake me up! What if you want to help me? You don't care about anything, you're brisk, what about me? Have you considered my feelings? Aren't we friends? "It's a blur in front of me, am I crying, or is he crying?
There was a new change in the laboratory, I don't know what the fire burned, it suddenly rose to the height of the ceiling, the whole laboratory was burned, and the inside became a sea of fire, and even some flames rushed outside, and the smoke also penetrated through the crack in the door and spread to the corridor, and the smoke was so thick that it could directly suffocate people.
"Run!" That was the last thing the drill said to me.
I can't continue to stay here, Ah Jue is still there, I'm still here, for my friend's last expectation, I can't be stuck in the quagmire and can't extricate myself, I must escape with Ah Jue!
Holding back the tears in my eyes, I ran desperately towards the door, all my sensory organs were numb, and my mind was full of the word "escape".
Hope is just a dream, and I hope I can see tomorrow again.
It was raining outside, and the gray stratus clouds galloped like wild beasts, and the flashing thunder was the footsteps of its passing, and the dust was dispersed, and the silver filaments repainted everything, like an undried ink painting, hazy and fresh.
I had already seen the bridge when I went, and the neon lights hanging on the side of the bridge were shining, and the street lights that had been installed on the bridge made the bridge stand out, and if it was a human being, it must be trying to wave to me now, so that I could hurry up and get to it.
The continuous rain and the long-term nervous tension made my physical strength even weaker than usual, and I didn't have the strength to carry Ah Jue after running out of the institute a few steps, so I temporarily rested under the nearest guard box. I put Ah Jue down and let him lean on my shoulder, while I looked aimlessly, and after a while, a strong sleepiness came up, and my eyelids gradually became unsupportable, and I fell asleep grogily.
In an unfamiliar environment, even when I am sleeping, my senses will not let my guard down at all, I sleep very lightly, and the slightest movement can wake me up, after all, the most reliable person in this situation is only myself.
"Huh?" I don't know how long I slept, I felt something furry on my shoulder, and I opened my eyes in a daze and glanced at it, this "furry thing" turned out to be Ah Jue's hair, wait, didn't he faint? How can you still move?
"Ah Jue, are you awake?" I kept shaking Ah Jue, and the sleepiness disappeared all at once.
His arms suddenly stretched straight out, clutching at something, shouting loudly and with fear on his face.
"Let me out, you black guy, you have the ability to fight, what kind of ability to trap me inside!" He was scolding, as if he hadn't gotten rid of the nightmare, and was still babbling.
Sure enough, it was the "black shadow clone" who captured him, and then replaced Ah Jue himself. In this way, the medicine that Wen Chen said "can treat frostbite" is a disguise from beginning to end, and it is simply a scene co-staged with "Gui", the purpose is to lead us into the designed trap, and Ah Jue's coma has another reason.
He screamed for a while and fainted, I rested for a while and almost recovered, and continued to carry him in the direction of the bridge, as for what caused Ah Jue's coma, let's wait for him to wake up.
Due to the limited perspective of Ajue on my back, and the sound of the pouring rain on the ground was too noisy, I didn't notice anything unusual during the journey, and I was already in someone's surveillance range from the time I escaped from the institute, and my every move was watched by him.
After walking a long way, Ah Jue moved again, struggling to get down. The rain was very heavy, and the potholed ground under my feet accumulated into large and small puddles, my whole body was soaked, the raindrops flowed down my hair and blurred my vision, and the whole person seemed to faint as if I had collapsed, but I couldn't just leave Ah Jue here, hold on for a while, and rest for a while at the crash railing on the bridge.
"You let me down, I can go by myself" Ah Jue woke up completely, pulling my hand to let me go.
"You wait, I'll go to the puddle and let you down"
"Isn't it just a puddle? I'm okay with my legs again, let me down! Ah Jue was in a hurry, kicked my arm and came down by himself.
His leg was not injured, but his center of gravity was still unsteady when he walked, and he swayed as if he had drunk high. I was not worried about his physical condition, after all, I didn't know what the reason for his coma was, and he wouldn't let me carry it, so I put one of his arms on my shoulder to prevent him from falling.
"I'm not a three-year-old child, why are you so troublesome" Ah Jue would habitually scratch his head when he felt very troubled, "It hurts, that guy actually sneaked attack!" ”。
Following where his fingers were pressing, he brushed away the hair that was in the way to reveal a scabbed wound, which he scratched and broke and began to bleed again.
"Don't scratch, did you run into a black shadow when you went out of the door?" I didn't have anything like gauze on my body, so I could only help him press the wound all the time.
"yes, I was hit in the back of the head just a few steps out of the door, and when I woke up I was trapped in that dark shadow, I couldn't breathe in it, and it didn't take long for me to know nothing."
After knocking people unconscious, Ah Jue was trapped, and the "black shadow clone" could be virtualized, and the reason for Ah Jue's coma was the lack of oxygen, which was inadvertently knowing the other abilities and weaknesses of the "black shadow clone"? It can't attack when it transforms into an incarnation.,After changing into someone else's form, it can't return to its original form without the consent of the main body.,And the constitution becomes the same as that of a human.。
How many abilities does it have, and how many abilities does its ontology have? But none of that mattered, it was trapped in that lab forever, just like the drill bit.
Ah Jue looked left and right and found that there was one person missing, "What about He Jinyan?" ”
"He Jinyan? Who is He Jinyan? Where did He Jinyan go? After hearing the name of "He Jinyan", I searched in my mind for a long time, a few minutes ago, he had completely disappeared from my memory, the merciless fire burned him to nothing, I wanted to pick up the fragment of my clothes, but the light touch of my fingertips turned it into ashes.
"yes, where did he go?" I suddenly felt a sudden opening up in front of me, even my breathing became free, I tilted my head, exaggerated breathing, let the raindrops hit my face, down my cheeks, I won't avoid the raindrops, he just blinded my eyes, covered the hazy sky, isn't it good?
Does it hurt? I don't feel at all, cold? I was so hot, look, sweating all over my body.
It's really comforting, the helplessness, sadness, and remorse that have been deeply suppressed in my heart since Ah Jue was taken away, I can even feel all the negative emotions in the world, so what? I just want to hold it alone, I just don't want others to know that they don't deserve it! None of them deserve it!
It's a natural right to cry, but I don't need to, I won't cry anymore. So who's the one who's sobbing right now? Who is the person who is trembling on Ah Jue's shoulder?
"Run, I'll hold him back!"
I told Ah Jue about the whole process from asking Wen Chen for help to escaping from the laboratory, he was silent, but the hand holding me tightened a little tighter, obviously I wanted to protect him at first, and I turned it over and over, but I was protected, and I cried after all.
The man who had been following us was standing not far from us, holding an umbrella covering half of his face, and the corners of his mouth were slightly curved.
It's like looking at two monkeys in a cage.
Without one person, the road still has to continue walking, we walked on the bridge, the other side of the bridge connected to the block is more familiar to me with more roles, compared to the foreign unconventional style of architectural blocks, I spent more thought on the traditional water town style of the block, the traditional clothing and living habits of the residents are written on the manuscript paper after I found a lot of information.
The drill thing can't just be a hundred, the more trouble "Gui" makes, the more I want to find him out!
The wide river channel under the bridge and the water deep enough to allow the sand carrier to sail on the river surface at will, this level of water can no longer be called a "river", the depth and width of the water have already reached the level of a "river". The sand carrier that came from a distance seemed to be out of order, and its trajectory twisted and twisted like a swimming water snake, not going in a straight line, and it was still rushing forward with all its strength when it saw that it was about to crash into the pier of the bridge, without taking any braking measures, and just crashed straight into the bridge with a "boom".
The deck of the bridge we were stepping on shook violently, and a huge crack opened in the middle of the bridge, and the bridge was about to break in two! What to do, what to do? The part of the bridge I'm stepping on has begun to slope downward, and the section of the bridge I'm stepping on is expected to last until people run back into the street.
I threw him hard at the uninclined section of the bridge, and at this time, the bridge was completely broken in two, and his feet slipped and fell down with the broken bridge deck.
The sound of the rain echoed in my ears, the tumbling of the river, the crashing of the boats, and the broken bridges sliding past me, and I would sink to the bottom of the river and into the endless abyss, just like them.
Ah Jue was calling out my name, and gradually, I couldn't hear anything clearly, and my ears were so quiet that he was still alive, so good.
"Good night, Ah Jue" closed his eyes, and everything returned to nothingness.
A man hurriedly jumps out of the spatial vortex that connects the "book world" with the "real world", holding a special communicator to talk to another person. "I've dealt with all the people who are against 'that adult' here, and the rest of them can't pose any threat, so you don't have to come over."
However, the world you jump into after the disappearance of the space vortex is a different space composed of mirror images, not the "real world".
"It's really a ruthless person to even be able to raise his own clone, Wen Chen really left one hand, and it was really a mistake to jump into the trap dug by others" Bai Shi strangled the man's throat, and his eagle-like sharp eyes looked at the poor man who was holding in his hand.
"If Brother Pu can't do it, let me solve it for him"
The man did not give up resisting, stubbornly holding his head high, and reluctantly used his ability to conjure up a scimitar and slash at Shiraishi's arm.